Everything is shared by everything else; there are no…

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality,…

— Henry Roth

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In…

— Rebecca Solnit

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

— Harold Hotelling

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science…

— John Gibbons

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a…

— Gregory Bateson

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the…

— Gail Fine

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually…

— Ernst Mayr

The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to…

— Jessie Bernard

“Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself…

— Mihail Marin

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress…

— Ernest Lawrence

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up…

— Walter Benjamin

You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one…

— Anthony F. C. Wallace

I don't do match cuts really. That's a ridiculous thing to say - I do. But we always explore how we can propel a…

— Sally Menke